Quotes About Protest

Non-co-operation and civil disobedience are but different branches of the same tree called satyagraha.

Tree sitting is a last resort. When you see someone sitting in a tree trying to protect it, you know that every level of our society has failed.

Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.

Sometimes there's truth in old cliches. There can be no real peace without justice. And without resistance there will be no justice.

Satyagraha is a relentless search for truth and a determination to search truth.

I thought of the courage it had taken for those young people in Tehran to go out into the streets holding those simple placards—"Where is my vote?"—with the openness and simplicity of a child, only to be razed down by bullets.

Thousands like me kept saying, "Let us in a little. Give us a piece of the pie." What hap- pened? Watts, Newark, Hartford. And what was the re- action? We started to hear a new jargon about "the urban crisis" and "law and order" and "crime in the streets.

Perhaps it is true that a representation of only the female side of things - which tends to be one long protest and complaint rather than the portrayal of a full and substantive existence - is limited. But an equally relevant question, one much less frequently asked, is: Is it more limited than the prevailing male view of things, which when not taken as absolute truth - is at least seen as "serious," relevant and important?

Union protagonists can be permitted a moment of nostalgia for this 'little' labor movement which no longer exists, nor can ever exist again, but which, while it lasted, was free of the specific problems that bedevil the labor movement today when by force of circumstance it has been separated a few notches farther from the rank and file.

He asked, 'How can you make a revolution without firing-squads?

I won't have sex with you," she blurts out. He words slam into my libido like a bucket of water on a flame full of testosterone. I think my dick just twitched in protest.

Call it peace or call it treason / call it love or call it reason / but I ain't marching anymore

Rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love.

You may protest if you can love the person you are protesting against as much as you love yourself.

I love seeing young people take a stance and not be afraid to say how they feel, and protest when they feel things are wrong or unjust.

The people are always prepared to shout on the side of power and to make a noise when it costs them nothing

On a des centaines de partis politiques et plus de groupes d'influence que de grains de sable sur nos plages. On a des grèves, des émeutes, des manifestations. Presque tous les jours. On comprend mieux pourquoi le Che s'est fait la malle après la révolution. C'est beaucoup plus facile de faire sauter les trains que de les faire arriver à l'heure.

Nothing's wrong with going to jail for something you believe in. Remember, jail was made for people. Not horses.

Nothing's wrong with going to jail for something you believe in. Remember, jail was made for people. Not horses.

My sin lies in not screaming loud

Eschewing ceremony, Eugenides said, You shot the ambassador? You gave me the gun, protested Sounis. I didn't mean for you to shoot the ambassador with it! Eugenides told him. Oh, how our carefully laid plans go astray, murmured the magus. You shut up! said Gen, laughing.

Individual members of certain churches in black communities should protest when worship services become a platform for teaching anti-gay sentiments. Often individuals sit and listen to preachers raging against gay people and think the views expressed are amusing and outmoded, and dismiss them without challenge. But if homophobia is to be eradicated in black communities, such attitudes must be challenged.

Patriarchal hip-hop ushered in a world where black males could declare that they were "keeping it real" when what they were really doing was taking the dead patriarchal protest of the black power movement and rearticulating it in forms that, though entertaining, had for the most part no transformative power, no ability to intervene on the politics of domination, and turn the real lives of black men around.

And how that girl did talk against time to make us think she was crazy about her Louie. She called attention to his honesty and his ability and his nose and the shape of his feet and his blue blood and his energy and what-have-you, and all the time, I was dying to quote that smart old Billy Shakespeare who was just as wordy as she was: 'Methinks the lady doth protest too much.